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Paco Panda 1 week ago (Received 2 hours ago) • mastodon (AP)

A proud mail dog fully committed to his duty. He's especially happy because all these cards are for himself.

Traditional. Color markers over shipping label that I grabbed at USPS
This piece will be exhibited at the Further Confusion Art Show.

A full time-lapse video shows the process, even from the sketch, you can watch it on the first comment of this picture on my Telegram channel: https://t.me/panda_paco

But if you are interested to see a slightly longer version, and give some support, you can watch a longer version of that video at supporting me on Patreon or Ko-Fi. Also I'm organizing a group photo illustration for all my supporters on those platforms, you can still jump in that picture!
Patreon: https://patreon.com/pandapaco
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/panda_paco
Thank you! :D

Paco Panda

Official Art Channel 🇲🇽 Clean cute artist. Full-Time Panda. Here to paint some smiles. https://linktr.ee/panda_paco Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pandapaco Ko-Fi Shop: https://ko-fi.com/panda_paco/shop Stickers channel: @pacostickers

^Telegram

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The Chaotic Good🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 6 days ago • mastodon (AP)

@ziphi I needed this Paco. it’s been too long.

@Ren

Soatok Dreamseeker 1 week ago (Received 20 hours ago) • mastodon (AP)

Every blue moon or so, a comment thread on the Orange Site is worth reading:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46629474

Too much text for alt text. Sorry. Please follow the link for the depth of it. That said, the thread starts with nicbou stating, "I write documentation for a living." And talking at length.

After the discussion continues, another user (apercu) quotes them, “It's almost like a cartel of shitty treatment.” and adds, "Thank you. I love it when someone poetically captures a feeling I’ve been having so succinctly."

Another use retorts, "It’s almost like they’re a professional writer…"

I laughed.

A letter to those who fired tech writers because of AI | Hacker News

^{news.ycombinator.com}

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ticho 1 week ago • mastodon (AP)

But what if it was written by a LLM that was prompted to pretend it is a professional docu writer that likes to talk to users to gather knowledge?

Is anything real anymore?

taco, bird/cat :verified420: 1 week ago (Received 20 hours ago) • mastodon (AP)

guy who inserts his name into his pronouns on namecards like "he/jim" for efficiency

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Paco Panda 1 week ago (Received 20 hours ago) • mastodon (AP)

Definitely everyone is a bulldog on this family!!

Frame bought in a thrift shop, and it was the excuse for the “I did this during my flight to FC” but I did it at the airport waiting for my flight to FC

This will be exhibited at the Further Confusion Art Show :D

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Colin 1 week ago • mastodon (AP)

bird!!

Fox 1 week ago • mastodon (AP)

just for a moment, scrolling by, I thought that was an etch-a-sketch. ^.^

Tufty Indigo 🪗 1 week ago (Received 21 hours ago) • mastodon (AP)

Content warning: genAI discussion

One interesting outcome of a world where many of us have access to tools to write, draw, and make music that's "better" (let's unpack that word later) than what we could have done ourselves is that it's forcing people to consider explicitly the value of personal connection versus professional capability, and I think that is bad for professional artists long-term, but possibly good for wider society. What do I mean by this?

Let's come back to that word "better". For ~$30 you can fine-tune an LLM to ghost-write a professional author so well that both lay readers and other professional authors think the LLM's output is both better and more authentic to the author's style than the author's own works. Routinely now, Spotify is padding out playlists with AI-generated music, and it's good enough to fit in undetected (in many cases) among the recordings made by professionals in a mature industry. So in terms of the quality of presentation, the best generative AI models are at the top of the craft, across multiple media.
Recorded-media works are all examples of "superstar economies". The top bands, TV & movie actors, authors are taking most of the interest and money, because scaling your audience gives you more resources to make your "quality of presentation" better (you get better producers and editors, better distribution in better venues, more reach). This trend has been going on for a while, and digitization reducing the scaling costs almost to zero has hugely increased it.
What about the value of personal connection? Live music at all levels, from pub gigs to stadium tours, has bounced back from the pandemic. People are going to see shitty bands in tiny venues with awful sound systems. People are spending more time watching YT videos with 100 views than blockbuster movies. Why? Because your niche, local artwork (in whatever form) is more "authentic" or "speaks to you" more than a superstar.
The "cozy web" is also a big part of this: a rejection of the "hustle to get noticed" culture of professional creativity in favour of the online equivalent of putting your drawing in the staff break room or playing piano when your friends come over.
On the other hand, this week's hot meme of “Please read our holiday card; we got a hungry ghost to write it this year” seems laughable because we would a priori expect an LLM-generated greeting to be no more personal, meaningful, or authentic than the one that came printed in the card. Whether it was LLM-generated or written by a contractor for Hallmark, that greeting would probably be well-written, but the quality of presentation isn't what matters here.
There's a big contrast here: it's becoming really easy to get superstar-quality artefacts, yet people are sharing their shitty artefacts in friend groups and niche interest groups.
For years, arts funding campaigners' answer to "why pay artists to do what people enjoy doing?" has been "If you want pro-quality art, you need full-time pro artists." But what if people decide that pro-quality art isn't actually what they want? What if being presented with infinite pro-quality art coming out of the sausage machine makes people realise they want amateur art made by their friends?

This last "what if" is why I say it could be bad for pro artists. But if the result is that people are more inspired to make crappy amateur art for their friends to enjoy more, and the art & entertainment industries get less globalised and less superstar-focused, maybe the prize is happier people and better communities.

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Dairishgoat 1 week ago (Received 21 hours ago) • mastodon (AP)

My photos from FNNY 2026, the big annual furry party held in Dublin, are now available here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/finbarzapek/albums/72177720331454636
As ever, if you spot yourself in the gallery then feel entirely free to reuse.

FNNY 2026

Furry Not New Years - a furry party held in Dublin, Ireland. 10/01/2026.

^{Sean C (Flickr)}

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Keys 1 week ago (Received 21 hours ago) • mastodon (AP)

It's only Wednesday but all I can think about is

📸 @DolbyHyena

fox fullsuiter pointing at a sign that says WINE BAR but covering the BAR portion

@Dolby is still a WIP

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Ázzuen ben Aslan🔜 FurcietyCon 1 week ago • mastodon (AP)

Sorry to hear that you need to "whine"... The way you're looking in the camera seems like you're really about to begin crying out loud ^^
hugs

Xoa Gray 1 week ago (Received 1 day ago) • mastodon (AP)

Content warning: Angry fox grumbles about Health Insurance

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Midtown Masochist 🐻 (RB-050) 🐷 1 week ago • mastodon (AP)

This is absolutely true! I loathe CVS & I am forced to use CVS by the moronic insurance provider chosen by my employer. I have no say in the matter whatsoever. I showed some of the nonsensical letters I was getting from CVS to the HR representatives at my employer. They basically said 'Yeah, what do you want us to do about it?' The head of HR commented that she didn't want to talk about this & didn't want to be involved in this conversation. My concerns were never addressed, by the way.

Xoa Gray 1 week ago • mastodon (AP)

@Richboy50 it really does suck. HR probably can’t even really do anything about it, the decision is probably made much further up the pipeline. But it sucks that they won’t really take your concerns to the people that can make a difference. Even if they’re not really gonna do anything either.

@Midtown Masochist 🐻 (RB-050) 🐷

Phil M0OFX 1 week ago (Received 1 day ago) • hometown (AP)

"Scott Adams died"

Oh no, not the adventure game writer! Oh, phew, it wasn't.

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Phil M0OFX 1 week ago (Received 1 day ago) • hometown (AP)

The most common thing said when stepping into the spotlight:

"Hey, where did the audience go?"

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Paco Panda 1 week ago (Received 1 day ago) • mastodon (AP)

Quetzalcoatl, the Feathered Serpent, god of wind, knowledge, and creation. A deity associated with breath, movement, and the bridge between the earthly and the divine.

During one of his journeys, he meets a small raccoon villager. Curious, unafraid, and grounded to the land, the boy climbed onto the god’s back for a ride. Feeling the wind and earth moving together, and the god carrying a simple sould, showing him his kindness and how open he is for a new friendship.

This piece is composed of four separate watercolor paintings, arranged in four frames to be read as a single panoramic image.The initial sketch was created digitally, then printed on cotton watercolor paper, then painted.

This artwork will be exhibited at the Further Confusion Art Show.

A time-lapse video was recorded, showing the entire process from digital sketch, through watercolor painting, to final framing, and also you see me trying to continue my painting while avoiding my cat to step over the painting. You can watch it on the first comment of this submission on my Telegram channel: https://t.me/panda_paco

I shared a longer full version of that process video, you can get it attached on a post exclusive for Patreon and Ko-Fi monthly supporters. Also I'm working on a big piece that commemorates my 10th anniversary on Patreon, which has been so important to me so I can keep creating art and living out of this, and as a thank you I'm drawing all my supporters, jump in and see how you can be part of it!
Patreon: https://patreon.com/pandapaco
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/panda_paco
Thank you!

Paco Panda

Official Art Channel 🇲🇽 Clean cute artist. Full-Time Panda. Here to paint some smiles. https://linktr.ee/panda_paco Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pandapaco Ko-Fi Shop: https://ko-fi.com/panda_paco/shop Stickers channel: @pacostickers

^Telegram

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HashRaydamon 1 week ago • mastodon (AP)

Impressive!

Pippin 1 day ago friendica

I haven't been keeping up with fedi for several days now because I've been too busy reading "Magic is Programming". If you want to be isekai'ed into a fantasy world where you can code with mana, this is a good read. The protagonist is basically speedrunning both enchanting and politics, and it's a lot of fun. Just starting book 2!

Phil M0OFX 1 week ago (Received 4 days ago) • hometown (AP)

Everyone did silly stuff in their 20s, right? #fursuit

A guy in a fluffy blue dragon costume. The dragon has a ridiculously long tail and two long whiskers dangling from just above his mouth like a giant moustache.
Oh yeah, and he's sitting on a banana.

#fursuit

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Xoa Gray 1 week ago • mastodon (AP)

Most poeple I've seen have never stopped.

sirlan <( o brasil é soberano ) 1 week ago (Received 5 days ago) • sharkey (AP)

"there are people who never knew a world without minecraft"

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Gneech, Jingling All the Way 1 week ago (Received 6 days ago) • mastodon (AP)

Content warning: USPol, resistance

#USpol

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Keys 1 week ago (Received 6 days ago) • mastodon (AP)

Dead 💀

📸 Dolby

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Xoa Gray 6 days ago • mastodon (AP)

Oh man who left one of these just laying here. I better put him somewhere so no one trips on him.

*scoops up, carries off*

Paco Panda 1 week ago (Received 6 days ago) • mastodon (AP)

A sable ferret playing an acoustic guitar.
Inked drawing done during Anthro Northwest's Artists Alley for Erik JB

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Paco Panda 1 week ago • mastodon (AP)

JC, the polar bear, is ready to go out the north pole to check around the world.

Picture done during Anthro Northwest's Artists Alley for JC, following his request of accesories for this cute bear character.

Traditional. Markers and Colored Pencils over toned tan paper.

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HashRaydamon 1 week ago • mastodon (AP)

Soo cute :D!!

Kootenay 1 week ago • mastodon (AP)

Kootenay made his first appearance at a LondonFurs meet today! Well, first time out and about in the UK, period.

📷@jingo.bsky.social

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Lett Osprey :v_pan: :v_enby: 🍉 :therian: 1 week ago • mastodon (AP)

Hope things have done well with the move!

Kootenay 1 week ago • mastodon (AP)

@lettosprey With the move itself; so far. Other tangential things have been a little wibbly and delayed.

@Lett Osprey :v_pan: :v_enby: 🍉 :therian:

Eleos 1 week ago • mastodon (AP)

burb burb burb burb! Looking fly!

Dairishgoat 1 week ago • mastodon (AP)

#ShinyDressSaturday

An experiment with a Belle style ballgown from a while back. Not fully successful but a fun attempt.

An orange & cream goat fursuit wearing a shiny gold ballgown based on Belle’s dress from ‘Beauty & the Beast’. She is posing in front of a white door.

#shinydresssaturday

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JAMIEvx 🦊🖤🏳️‍⚧️:win3_setup: 1 week ago • mastodon (AP)

Content warning: rubber drone, techwear, photo

#rubber #latex #squeakysaturday #rubberdrone #latexdrone

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MrGrumpyMonkey 1 week ago • mastodon (AP)

Content warning: rubber drone, techwear, photo

JAMIEvx 🦊🖤🏳️‍⚧️:win3_setup: 1 week ago • mastodon (AP)

Content warning: re: rubber drone, techwear, photo

@MrGrumpyMonkey

MrGrumpyMonkey 1 week ago • mastodon (AP)

Content warning: re: rubber drone, techwear, photo

Phil M0OFX 1 week ago • hometown (AP)

Epic graffiti battles of history!

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DYVkGqOrkzA

A London street artist and a wall cleaner engaged in a year long exchange

The story of the red wall in London is a playful, unexpected exchange between a street artist known as Mobstr and a persistent city worker whose job was to r...

^YouTube

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin 1 week ago • mastodon (AP)

It leaves a mark on your soul, meeting a god. Most people never meet one before they die. A few saints, prophets, and other holies have more than one mark.

The witch couldn't help stare with her second sight.

"You've met them all? Many times?"

Her friend shrugged. "They say I'm a good listener."

#TootFic #MicroFiction #SmallStories

#tootfic #microfiction #smallstories

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thairanaru 1 week ago • mastodon (AP)

help, i don't get this one

Looking for explanations… 1 week ago • mastodon (AP)

I’m guessing they’d need a lot of therapy.

Paco Panda 1 week ago • mastodon (AP)

I wrote a journal about my experience at Anthro Northwest 8 (2026)!!
You can check it out at:
- Patreon (open) (https://www.patreon.com/posts/147830079)
- Ko-Fi (https://ko-fi.com/post/Anthro-Northwest-8-Journal-D1D51RZOIQ?fromEditor=true)
- Furaffinity (https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/11288652/)

Anthro Northwest 8 Journal

Paco Panda published a post on Ko-fi

^Ko-fi

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Phil M0OFX 1 week ago • hometown (AP)

I'm watching this video and imagining Rick yelling this at Morty, sorta like this --

You stab it Morty, you stab the fascism or you'll die - you'll die Morty! It's like a cancer!
I don't care what flavour you want your democracy to be, Morty! It's not ice cream, vanilla or chocolate, it's freedom or fascism!'

It's well worth a watch even if you're not a R&M fan.

Rick and Morty Creator Dan Harmon goes on anti Fascist rant.
Fuck nazi’s. Fuck fascists.

https://kzoo.to/@notsle/115861924421638563

Myk (@notsle@kzoo.to)

Attached: 1 video Rick and Morty Creator Dan Harmon goes on anti Fascist rant. Fuck nazi’s. Fuck fascists. #fascism #antifa #antiFascist #uspol

^Kzoo.to

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Myk 1 week ago • mastodon (AP)

Rick and Morty Creator Dan Harmon goes on anti Fascist rant.
Fuck nazi’s. Fuck fascists.

#fascism #antifa #antiFascist #uspol

#antifascist #USpol #fascism #antifa

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Paco Panda 1 week ago • mastodon (AP)

A quick doodle with color I did to Frost during Anthro Northwest, I was there drawing on the art jam tables and suddenly cute raccoon appears.

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HashRaydamon 1 week ago • mastodon (AP)

cute :)

Keys 1 week ago • mastodon (AP)

Can I interest you in some #fursuitfriday ?

📸 Dolby

#fursuitfriday

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Foxarc 1 week ago • mastodon (AP)

Yes.

Obscura, Cheetah 1 week ago • mastodon (AP)

Cats! Two of them. 😸😸
With Shanie (https://www.furtrack.com/index/character:shanie)
#FursuitFriday

Photo by MikePaws (https://www.furtrack.com/user/Mikepaws)

Fursuit photo of Obscura and Shanie doing cat grooming things

Welcome to Furtrack! Fursuit photo sharing, tagging & discovery

Fursuit photo/video sharing & searching for the furry fandom

^{www.furtrack.com}

#fursuitfriday

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Dairishgoat 1 week ago • mastodon (AP)

Somewhere in this picture there is a goat.
#FursuitFriday

A landscape shot taken in Co. Cork, Ireland. It shows a high hillside road to the right and the ocean and a distant headland to the left. The blue sky is filled with fluffy clouds. In the distance, standing on the road, is an orange and cream goat fursuit.

#fursuitfriday

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Kootenay 1 week ago • mastodon (AP)

...

Oh! I spot the goat! :>

Doran Eirok ΘΔ 🫐🐾 1 week ago • mastodon (AP)

Warning: Stylish fluffdragons ahead! They may have spotted you...

💛 @azakir
🪡 @selkiesuits
📷 https://bsky.app/profile/quekir.bsky.social
🌍 SotonFurs Winter Party 2026
⌚ #FursuitFriday

Dragon fursuiters Azakir and Doran walk side by side through a park, the winter daylight starting to fade. Azakir, yellow, is wearing a bright flowy rainbow cardigan/dress. Doran, blue, is wearing a long rainbow coat, a black kilt, purple leggings, and futuristic black boots along with his usual round spectacles.

#fursuitfriday @Selkie Suits @Azakir

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Selden 1 week ago • mastodon (AP)

*pets both snoots*

Doran Eirok ΘΔ 🫐🐾 1 week ago • mastodon (AP)

@SeldenOtter
*happy snootwiggle!*

@Selden

Alice Dryden 1 week ago • mastodon (AP)

A little light reading for your Friday? You can read the first chapter of my novella, Peace and Love, online or download a PDF: https://huskyteer.co.uk/peaceandlove.php ☮️💜 #FurryWriting

Frank, a hippie fox wearing a headband, peace symbol necklace and John Lennon glasses, holds a copy of my novella and a sign reading 'I DIG THIS BOOK'.

Huskyteer: Peace and Love

^{huskyteer.co.uk}

#furrywriting

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Avon DeRussate 1 week ago • mastodon (AP)

I liked this one

Alice Dryden 1 week ago • mastodon (AP)

@avon_deer Thank you, deer - that means a lot!

@Avon DeRussate

Aatheus 1 week ago • mastodon (AP)

Content warning: mild adult humor

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Xoa Gray 1 week ago • mastodon (AP)

How cool would it be to get to see this in person from space. Fireworks on NYE.

https://www.reddit.com/r/spaceporn/comments/1q7e4ia/new_years_fireworks_seen_from_space_station/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Reddit - The heart of the internet

^{www.reddit.com}

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❤️ 🐾 Ember Darkpaw 🐾❤️ 2 weeks ago (Received 1 week ago) • mastodon (AP)

The name on top is Jamie Bonkiewicz

The text says:

"Thanks for the free 7-day trial of 2026."
"I'd like to unsubscribe from whatever the hell this is."

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Mohit Sindhwani 1 week ago • mastodon (AP)

Narrator: it was not free.

❤️ 🐾 Ember Darkpaw 🐾❤️ 1 week ago • mastodon (AP)

@onghu

It's come at a terrible price

@Mohit Sindhwani

Phil M0OFX 2 weeks ago (Received 1 week ago) • hometown (AP)

The problem with "unprecedented times" is eventually it just becomes "another Tuesday".

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Paco Panda 2 weeks ago (Received 1 week ago) • mastodon (AP)

She is Panduh!
First I had drawn her during the doodles for charity in fursuit during Anthro Northwest for PanduhFloof, and that same day but later I got to draw her a sketch again but as human, this is the "as a human" drawing:

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kieran 2 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

👀

XKCD Bot 2 weeks ago (Received 1 week ago) • mastodon (AP)

Content warning: #3191 Superstition

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Gneech, Jingling All the Way 2 weeks ago (Received 1 week ago) • mastodon (AP)

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fesshole/115853545223895099

Ping @inkblitz

Fesshole 🧻 (@fesshole@mastodon.social)

45 y/o, in a nightclub for first time in years. Young lad burst into the toilets & caught me furtively trying to open a little ziploc bag. He said "just a heads up, the bouncers come in here to check for drugs".

^{Fesshole 🧻 (Mastodon)}

@Inkblitz 🔜 ???, MFF, ???

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Pippin 1 week ago friendica

"Love" stories are about wanting sex. Couldn't care less.

Friendship stories are about actual love.

Pippin 1 week ago friendica

This is because I just finished watching How To Train Your Dragon for the billionth time. (The proper one, not the copy, I don't see why I'd want to watch that. Animators are often better actors IMO.)